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Biography

Eduardo Silva-Romero is a founding partner at Wordstone, specializing in international commercial and investment arbitration, with a historic focus on disputes involving States and State-owned entities. Eduardo is recognized as one of the world’s most in-demand arbitrators, having acted in over 180 international commercial and investment cases under a wide variety of institutional rules. Eduardo has advised and advises on arbitration matters conducted under the auspices of ICC, ICSID, PCA, LCIA, ICDR and SCC, as well as in ad hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL and EDF arbitration rules. Eduardo is consistently recognized in the Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 directories as one of the most pre-eminent arbitration practitioners globally. Eduardo is a former Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and former member of the ICC Court, and is currently the Chair of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. Eduardo has published several articles, books and chapters on international arbitration, including its lectures on “Legal Fictions in the Language of International Arbitration” delivered at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2019. He also lectures on investment arbitration and international contracts at Sciences Po in Paris, international arbitration at Paris II University, international commercial arbitration involving States and State entities at the University of Paris-Dauphine, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Rosario in Bogotá.